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The Lord Chancellor has introduced a Bill into the House

of Lords to annex a canonry to the Regius Professorship of Greek at Oxford, which his Lordship hopes with charming frankness will be received by the University " in the same spirit in which it is offered by the Ministers of the Crown," which, if it means Lord Westbury's spirit, is at least exceedingly unlikely. We fear it will not do,--unless the Government are prepared to secularize a canonry for the endowment of this Professorship,—a step not at all unknown in the last century, and far from objectionable. To limit the Regius Professorship of Greek to a clergyman would be a very unfortunate and unpopular restriction on the choice of the Crown.

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